Good day for finding Books

I laid hands on a copy of "Arctic Lace" Friday at my local BN. I decided I don't need it *right this minute* but it is on the list of things Santa carries around in his wallet. The book contains a lot of good history about the qiviut coops and the knitters who belong to the coops. In the back is a list of suppliers of qiviut yarn, which I copied onto a napkin for future reference. Now if I can just find the napkin in my filing system...

LOL well I didn't have a clue what qiviut coops is so did a goggle and found this but no pictures:

bought a lace scarf kit at a yarn show a few months ago...the yarn is very fine and kinda fuzzy.....the free pattern was in a chevron stitch and after CO I could not get the needles in under the stitches to knit...so put it away for latter...the pattern called for size 13 but I may need to CO real loose.

"DAB" wrote in news:DD31h.1722$VX5.251@trnddc05:

that's kinda funny, because i bought both Knitting for Peace & Knitting Rules! last week. i agree that Knitting for Peace is a very calming book. Knitting Rules! is too short though. it was funny! lee

LOL yes it is...I am about half way thru and plan to get her other books.

Donna

I've visited the website on Qiviut-isn't that interesting? It takes several years of combing each muskox to get a pound of fiber. I understand it's very soft and much finer than wool. Too bad they don't offer just the yarn yet, only kits. I imagine it's quite expensive but someday I would like to try it. Marie and the cats

WoolyGooly wrote:

I've visited the website on Qiviut-isn't that interesting? It takes several years of combing each muskox to get a pound of fiber. I understand it's very soft and much finer than wool. Too bad they don't offer just the yarn yet, only kits. I imagine it's quite expensive but someday I would like to try it. Marie and the cats

WoolyGooly wrote:

I bought her Knitting Rules! just before she came to Mesa for a book tour & lecture. She was hilarious. And I got her to autograph my book, that ruled! She has some good common sense formulas for making basic patterns which appealed to me (I have a lot of down-brain time by the time I get off work! ) P.S. I know that Santa bought me Handknit Holidays hehe. Marie and the cats

DAB wrote:

Aaah, but my dear - you can buy it in skeins - but it's very expensive. I intend to try it someday too. There seems to be a number of places to shop.. Go here to have a look:

is a Canadian lady in Whitehorse, Yukon sells what looks like a black/charcoal quivit at $28.00/oz folks have it in their catalogue but are sold out.Their price for black is $49.99 an oz and they say they haven't seen abetter price anywhere. I guess they didn't check Lambspun.http://arnica.dk/shop.php?hkatId=3&skatId=19This online store is overseas (Denmark) and their pricing is in Euros.http://tinyurl.com/y2m7npThis person is in Idaho (I think)

Alison

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